Hello: CalSky predicts that there is going to be an ISS solar transit over Bangalore, India (where I live) on 9th February. I am planning to attempt photographing this. I have some questions related to this: 1. Since the event is two weeks from now, in what ways can the center line and the predicted time change over time due to change in orbit parameters? Or in other words I am trying to estimate when I should start scouting for a good location on the center line? Would 2 weeks ahead be too early or should I wait till it's about 2 or 3 days prior to the event? 2. I have seen Thierry Legault's amazing pictures. But very limited information on how to prepare and photograph such a short event. It would be great if any of you can provide suggestions and tips. 3. How frequent are transit events for a given piece of area on Earth? I have access to limited resources - I don't have a long focal length OTA but just an 80mm f/6 refractor. I have a DSLR body and am considering using a long telephoto lens (with a converter). I have solar photographic filter. Given this, should I shoot stills at high FPS around the transit time or should I record a video and grab frames out of it to obtain good stills? My 60D can shoot 5.3 fps but I need to test for how long it can do without overrunning the buffer. It can also shoot a 60FPS video at 720P. Thanks! Regards Sankar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20140123/ae6dffa6/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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